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Cancer-related nutrition "pins" often claim to prevent, treat, or cure cancer, with many pinners selling dubious products or services to patients and survivors.

The chemicals, which are commonly used as food additives in processed meats, are associated with increased risks for prostate cancer and breast cancer.

Dropping the C word would curtail anxiety and reduce overtreatment, some experts have argued, but not everyone embraces the idea.

A validated genetic score can adjust PSA values to reduce overdiagnosis of prostate cancer and help distinguish clinically significant disease from indolent cancer.

Older patients with advanced cancer who also had diabetes and were taking metformin were found to have better survival than those not taking metformin.

Rates of guideline-recommended bone scans were low, and rates of use of bone drugs even lower, among older men on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer.

Will the public health messages about obesity and cancer have to be rewritten now that a new analysis has questioned some of the links found in older studies?

Several studies in prostate cancer have recently opened their doors. Perhaps one of your patients is eligible to take part?

Our findings do not support the use of artificial sweeteners as safe alternatives for sugar in foods or beverages, say the researchers. An outside expert is not so sure.

The agency has approved lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan (Pluvicto) for treatment and gallium Ga 68 gozetotide (Locametz) as a diagnostic for use with PET imaging.